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<blockquote data-quote="charli181" data-source="post: 288662" data-attributes="member: 54408"><p>First Off,</p><p>Welcome to the MP Family. </p><p></p><p>The TVServer is designed to control all TV Aspects therefore multiple clients can watch TV using on machines TV Cards (i.e.The Server). The TV Server itself does not decode the stream, it just is a transport mechanism. The great this is that recordings are central so again each client can watch the recordings from a single point.</p><p></p><p>Indeed the client does need to be a bit on the "Grunty" side to decode the HD streams (stream can be upto 15MB per second) therefore it is ideal if you have a Video Card that can handle MPEG2/H264 decoding in hardware (known as Hardawre Acceleration, DXVA or GPU processing) and that will allow it to take the majority of load off the CPU. Note your Codec selection will also determine how big your machine will need to be.</p><p></p><p>If you have each client run it's own TV, you may need to purchase more TV cards and also have aerial leads run to each machine. TVServer eliminates this issue as all cards are located on the server. Recordings are done on the server so if each client requests a recording, only the server has to turn on (if you turn it off) instead of each client having to turn on to start the recording on it own machine. More info on the TVServer comparisons can be found on the wiki <a href="https://www.team-mediaportal.com/manual/TV-Server/overview" target="_blank">TV-Server/overview - MediaPortal Wiki Documentation</a></p><p></p><p>Now for the extra Media question (Music, DVD's and Photos). Yes these could be stored on the Server in Folders that are shared. The clients can then be configured to to connect to these share and MP setup to use these shares as the Media Locations. The wiki has a guide for a centralised database for multiple clients so IMDB information only has to be retrieved once and then all clients will be updated next time they start. <a href="https://www.team-mediaportal.com/manual/UserGuides/CentralisedDatabases" target="_blank">UserGuides/CentralisedDatabases - MediaPortal Wiki Documentation</a></p><p>Note that there are limitations to this though and is stated in the wiki. There ather alternatives as well if these limitations cause to many problems.</p><p></p><p>I would also suggest that you update your System Specs under User CP menu on the forums, to help assist in where you hardware issue may be. You may find the codecs you are using are not the best for your system.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="charli181, post: 288662, member: 54408"] First Off, Welcome to the MP Family. The TVServer is designed to control all TV Aspects therefore multiple clients can watch TV using on machines TV Cards (i.e.The Server). The TV Server itself does not decode the stream, it just is a transport mechanism. The great this is that recordings are central so again each client can watch the recordings from a single point. Indeed the client does need to be a bit on the "Grunty" side to decode the HD streams (stream can be upto 15MB per second) therefore it is ideal if you have a Video Card that can handle MPEG2/H264 decoding in hardware (known as Hardawre Acceleration, DXVA or GPU processing) and that will allow it to take the majority of load off the CPU. Note your Codec selection will also determine how big your machine will need to be. If you have each client run it's own TV, you may need to purchase more TV cards and also have aerial leads run to each machine. TVServer eliminates this issue as all cards are located on the server. Recordings are done on the server so if each client requests a recording, only the server has to turn on (if you turn it off) instead of each client having to turn on to start the recording on it own machine. More info on the TVServer comparisons can be found on the wiki [url=https://www.team-mediaportal.com/manual/TV-Server/overview]TV-Server/overview - MediaPortal Wiki Documentation[/url] Now for the extra Media question (Music, DVD's and Photos). Yes these could be stored on the Server in Folders that are shared. The clients can then be configured to to connect to these share and MP setup to use these shares as the Media Locations. The wiki has a guide for a centralised database for multiple clients so IMDB information only has to be retrieved once and then all clients will be updated next time they start. [url=https://www.team-mediaportal.com/manual/UserGuides/CentralisedDatabases]UserGuides/CentralisedDatabases - MediaPortal Wiki Documentation[/url] Note that there are limitations to this though and is stated in the wiki. There ather alternatives as well if these limitations cause to many problems. I would also suggest that you update your System Specs under User CP menu on the forums, to help assist in where you hardware issue may be. You may find the codecs you are using are not the best for your system. [/QUOTE]
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